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gCaptain’s full coverage of Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), the world’s largest container shipping company by capacity.


Monday, October 31, 2022
MSC Gayane
Shipping

DOJ Charges Former Heavyweight Boxer for Smuggling Cocaine Worth Over $1 Billion on MSC Containerships

The U.S. Department of Justice has charged a former heavyweight boxer with trafficking over 20 tons of cocaine on containerships linked to the world’s

October 31, 2022
Total Views: 9892

Monday, October 24, 2022
MSC Container ship enters portCatstyecam / Shutterstock.com
Shipping

Liner Giant MSC Makes Major Towing Acquisition

Mediterranean Shipping Company has agreed to acquire Italian towage operator Rimorchiatori Mediterranei S.p.A., the world’s third-largest harbor tug

October 24, 2022
Total Views: 5129

Monday, October 3, 2022
President Macron’s Chief of Staff Indicted Over MSC Links
Shipping

President Macron’s Chief of Staff Indicted Over MSC Links

PARIS, Oct 3 (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron’s chief of staff has been indicted by the national financial crimes prosecutor

October 3, 2022
Total Views: 2633

Monday, September 26, 2022
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Shipping

World’s Largest Shipping Line MSC Announces New Air Cargo Service

By Bryce Baschuk (Bloomberg) — Mediterranean Shipping Co., the world’s largest container line, will expand into air cargo using four leased Boeing Co.

September 26, 2022
Total Views: 7106

Wednesday, June 15, 2022
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Cruise Ships

MSC Considering Controlling Stake in World’s Largest Cruise Port Operator

Responding to media reports, Global Ports has confirmed it has been approached by MSC with a potential cash offer for all shares of the cruise ports operator.

June 15, 2022
Total Views: 1539

Friday, May 20, 2022
Gianluigi Aponte portrait
Shipping

Former-Banker Turned Shipping Magnate Rides Pandemic Shipping Boom to $19 Billion Fortune

By Ben Stupples (Bloomberg) — Gianluigi Aponte left a job in finance to focus on shipping. Now, decades later, he has one of the world’s biggest

May 20, 2022
Total Views: 3429

Tuesday, May 10, 2022
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Shipping

Carriers Blank More Sailings as China’s COVID Lockdowns Continue

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Ocean carrier alliances are preparing to blank more than a third of their sailings from Asia over the coming weeks in

May 10, 2022
Total Views: 1761

Tuesday, May 3, 2022
Stock image of an MSC containership
Shipping

Filipino Seafaer Pleads Guilty in Gruesome Murder of Crew Member on LA-Bound Containership

A Filipino seafarer is facing up to life in U.S. jail for fatally stabbing his supervisor on board an MSC containership en route from Shanghai to Los Angeles.

May 3, 2022
Total Views: 8236

Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Russia's Port of Saint-Petersburg. Stock Photo: Aleksandr Medvedkov / Shutterstock.com
Ports

Russia Faces Drop in Cargo Traffic, Container Shortage as Shipping Lines Pull Out

April 13 (Reuters) – Russia is bracing for a sharp decline in cargo flows and a deficit of containers after major international

April 13, 2022
Total Views: 31164

Wednesday, April 6, 2022
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Shipping

Maersk Still Tops MSC in Reefer Rankings

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Despite MSC continuing to stretch its lead over Maersk in the containership total capacity stakes, the Danish carrier

April 6, 2022
Total Views: 2999

Friday, April 1, 2022
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Shipping

MSC Reaches Deal to Acquire Bolloré’s Africa Logistics Business for 5.7 Billion Euros

The world’s largest shipping line, Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), has reached an agreement to acquire 100% the African logistic business of

April 1, 2022
Total Views: 2042

Wednesday, March 30, 2022
containership
Shipping

Ocean Carriers’ Shift to Owning More Ships Depletes Containership Charter Market

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The shift by some ocean carriers to owning more tonnage rather than chartering-in ships has depleted the containership

March 30, 2022
Total Views: 4819

Friday, March 25, 2022
MSC Takes Minority Stake in Beleaguered Ferry Operator Moby  
Shipping

MSC Takes Minority Stake in Beleaguered Ferry Operator Moby  

By Antonio Vanuzzo and Giulia Morpurgo (Bloomberg) — Italian billionaire Gianluigi Aponte’s Mediterranean Shipping Co. will take a minority stake

March 25, 2022
Total Views: 2286

Tuesday, March 15, 2022
MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company, the world’s largest container line, accelerates its digital transformation using Marlink solutions
Press Releases

MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company, the world’s largest container line, accelerates its digital transformation using Marlink solutions

Marlink, the smart network company, is partnering with MSC, the world’s largest container shipping line, to support the shipping company’s ambitious

March 15, 2022
Total Views: 1193

Monday, March 7, 2022
Dock Workers and Shipping Lines Widen Boycott of Russian Trade
Shipping

Dock Workers and Shipping Lines Widen Boycott of Russian Trade

By K. Oanh Ha (Bloomberg) — Dock workers around the world are pushing to widen bans on Russian ships from their ports, moves that would potentially

March 7, 2022
Total Views: 1503

Tuesday, March 1, 2022
maersk ship
News

World’s Largest Shipping Lines Suspend Shipping to Russia

By Jonathan Saul, Stine Jacobsen and Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen LONDON/COPENHAGEN, March 1 (Reuters) – The world’s three

March 1, 2022
Total Views: 12859

Monday, February 14, 2022
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Offshore

A New Onassis? Italy’s Sea Captain Swoops On Reborn Alitalia

By Jonathan Saul, Elisa Anzolin and Francesca Landini LONDON/MILAN, Feb 14 (Reuters) – Sixty-five years after Aristotle Onassis founded Greece’s

February 14, 2022
Total Views: 5920

Friday, February 11, 2022
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Shipping

Italy Set to Approve Start of Process to Sell Airline ITA to MSC

By Alberto Brambilla, Daniele Lepido and Chiara Albanese (Bloomberg) — Italy’s government is set to approve the start of the process to sell ITA

February 11, 2022
Total Views: 1394

Wednesday, February 9, 2022
Rising LNG Bunker Costs Not Deterring Carrier Newbuilds
Shipping

Rising LNG Bunker Costs Not Deterring Carrier Newbuilds

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Investment in new LNG-fuelled ships has continued at pace, with class society DNV last month recording a further 40

February 9, 2022
Total Views: 1314

Thursday, January 27, 2022
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Shipping

MSC Re-Routes Ships Near Greece to Protect Sperm Whales

MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company, the world’s largest container shipping company, will re-route its ships along the west coast of Greece to reduce the

January 27, 2022
Total Views: 2118